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...gravitated toward a kind of abstracted nature-imagery. Minimal art he now finds understated and unimportant. "I think of my work as more flamboyant, which you're not supposed to use in minimal work. Instead of being unimportant, my work is very outrageous." His large floor piece, Bloomin', is an artificial wooden garden: panels of coarsely cut building board lie flat as grass or fold into flowerlike cones; sprouts of timber push upward. "I want the color to look like growth, living and flowers. Brown is the earth, green for growth, bright colors for mature flowers." Spring unfolds...
Stamp plays Clegg more as a psychotic Adonis. The winsome boyish airs that made him a perfect choice for the movie version of Billy Budd (1962) are a crucial drawback when he has to reason maniacally: "There'd be a bloomin' lot more of this if enough people had the time and money." His fixed stare and halting accents never quite cancel out the suspicion that he is just the sort of menace a comely bird might yearn to be imprisoned by-a vaguely Heathcliffian introvert reviving a Brontë romance in modern dress. Thus Actress Eggar dominates...
...name was no handicap. Nor was all the free publicity showered on him when a couple of Tory M.P.s protested that the bloomin' British taxpayer was forking out ten quid a week to support-of all people-Would-Be Actor Michael Chaplin, 19, Wife Patricia, 25, and their six-month-old baby. All the same, Charlie's eldest son by Fourth Wife Oona O'Neill got off the dole by being just the slob for the job. The script of Promise Her Anything, which Hollywood Producer Stanley Rubin is filming in London, calls for a weirdie-beardie...
...Future of Europe") duly applauded, Laborite Peer Lord Attlee settled down for tea at Indiana's Valparaiso University. Cream or lemon?asked the hostess.Answered Attlee, with just the flicker of a smirk: "Ever since the Boston Tea Party, you Americans have been trying to dredge up our bloomin' tea and give it back to us. No, thanks-I'll have coffee...
Sentimentalists who had seen Maude Adams or Helen Hayes sweeten the role did not find the Maggie of their memories. "Maggie isn't so virtuous," says Siobhan in her rich resonance, the native Gaelic just a thin inflection away. "She can be a bloomin' bitch. I could play her all mealymouthed, the poor little rich girl, but I don't see it that...